The Acting Podcast from The BGB Studio
The Acting Podcast with Risa Bramon Garcia (director, casting director, producer) & Steve Braun (acting coach, communication consultant), founders of The BGB Studio, takes you inside the craft, the casting room, and the business- and bringing other Industry experts into the conversation- we dig into the work, pull back the curtain of the Industry, and show you how much power you really have as an artist.
Episodes
Casting Virtual Roundtable: CDs tell it like it is
~A conversation with 6 brilliant Casting Artists~ with (in alphabetical order) Juel Bestrop, Randi Hiller, Billy Hopkins, Hedi Levitt, Bernie Telsey, Mary Vernieu & Risa!
We have wanted to do this for a while…to share what these, and most CDs, think and feel about the work, the Industry, self-tapes, all of it. To tell it like it is! So, I met on Zoom with th...
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Clayton is a long-time member of the BGB Studio, and Risa has had the privilege of working with him here and watching him work hard and grow brilliantly. His fellow BGB actors adore h...
This is our 60th episode of The Acting Podcast 🙌 which is a big deal for us here at The BGB Studio. So welcome to #60, and How to be Awesome.
You ARE awesome.
Say that to yourself, maybe even in the mirror; try it! I AM AWESOME. Now let it land. Right in your solar plexus. It’s TRUE. And while this Industry may not see you in your awesomeness- now or yet or since whenever- it’s your job… your respo...
At our most recent BGB Actors Summit, Risa and Steve gathered with actors from all over the world- from Rio de Janeiro to Mumbai, from Glasgow to San Antonio, from Buffalo to all over Los Angeles. They offered the fundamental and practical steps necessary to nurture and rebuild your career, your collaboration with other creative professionals, and your art.
These are essential practices that take you on the journey to success-...
Hunting Season
“A story, in three parts, about Catfish Queens, Virgin Marys, and Losing your Damn Mind in the Mississippi Delta”
Saturday Boy
“A tale driving you into the heart of car bonnets, old ladies and existential dread”
Losing My Religion
“It’s 1992… painting houses, a break up, a presidential election, and poetry”
Murder at Heaven Avenue
“A mountaintop revelation changed everything”
Muqtada’s Room
“An invitation to stay in bed gets him out of bed and into the dream”
The Creek
“Things left said”
Incomplete Knowledge
“Desire spirals into obsession amidst the labyrinthine canals of Venice.”
Cynthia Continued
“A bitter green salad and the awful reality of transactional relationships”
Trastevere
“Impossible moments and a Maestro’s long game”
Found Words
“A trip to Wales to find connection led to more than she could have ever imagined”
Hand Tools
“Hand tools and family trees”
You’ve Been Lurking Here
“A hazy memory of treasure and ruin in New Mexico”
Sidenotes
“Hope = the fire in the rear view is smaller, the further we get”
It’s Horror month. Halloween… and all. 🎃
In the spirit of spooky movies, I talk with 2 of our amazing BGB Master Teachers, Sydney Walsh & Corey Parker, on Zoom (so you can watch!) about what it was like to act in the HORROR genre- they each have starred in a few iconic Horror Movies. We talk Horror movie acting, and acting in any Genre, plus what it was like to audition in the 80s and 90s when big filmmakers were i...
An actor's mindset can make or break a career. Your job is to open your heart, remain sensitive and open. And you’re asked to do that job in an Industry that doesn't have the capacity to care for your needs and in which scarcity is the norm. You will lose faith. It’s inevitable. But how gracefully you can find it again is the difference between auditioning with the full power of your talent, and allowing fear and self-c...
Risa talked on Zoom with with Anthony Meindl of fellow acting studio, AMAW (which is Anthony Meindl's Acting Workshop) about EVERYTHING… about art, big tech, climate change, self-tapes, casting, how Tik Tok is killing our attention span, and how things are really really hard right now. They talked about both getting started in the NY theatre and the power of community, and, something that resonates for us at BGB a well... be...
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